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MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) by calling for inclusion of civil society and the churches instead of calling for ours disbanding.

The grouping is made up of all opposition parties whose leaders challenged Mnangagwa in the 2018 presidential elections except the main opposition MDC Alliance two and other parties led by former Vice President Joyce Mujuru and former Finance Minister Nkosana Moyo.

Speaking in a virtual meeting Mwonzora feels the opening up of the dialogue process to a broader interest base was best to provide everlasting solutions to the troubled country.

“The problem with POLAD is that it is limited to political actors as if the crisis affects them alone,” he said.

“I think we could do better by widening that forum of dialogue to include churches, civil society, labour and business.

“If we include all those people, there is no danger of process generating or culminating into an elite pact.”

He added, “The MDC right now is making a proposal on how to have meaningful dialogue in Zimbabwe, dialogue that is going to have everlasting solutions to the Zimbabwe crisis, that’s our guiding principle.

“We are for dialogue and that dialogue must lead to everlasting solutions to the problems bedevilling Zimbabwe, that is rally number one.

“Rally number two, in approaching dialogue, we must be guided on what is in the best interest for Zimbabwean people, that is why we are welcoming the initiative by the South African President (Ramaphosa) to appoint an envoy to fact find on what is happening in Zimbabwe. That is a noble initiative by a neighbour.”